Editing Roadkill (section)

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{{redirect|Traffic victims|human casualties|Epidemiology of motor vehicle collisions}}
{{short description|Animals that have died due to vehicular incursions}}
[[File:Roadkill on Route 170 Okatie Hwy by the Chechessee River, SC, USA, jjron 09.04.2012.jpg|thumb|The battered remains of a roadkilled [[White-tailed deer|deer]] on [[South Carolina Highway 170]] by the [[List of rivers of South Carolina|Chechessee River]] in [[South Carolina]], US]]
[[File:Bear roadkill2.jpg|thumb|Wide-ranging large [[carnivore]]s like this [[bear]] are particularly vulnerable to becoming roadkill.]]
'''Roadkill''' is a wild animal that has been killed by collision with motor vehicles. Wildlife-vehicle collisions (WVC)  have increasingly been the topic of academic research to understand the causes, and how they can be mitigated.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bartonička |first1=Tomáš |last2=Andrášik |first2=Richard |last3=Duľa |first3=Martin |last4=Sedoník |first4=Jiří |last5=Bíl |first5=Michal |title=Identification of local factors causing clustering of animal-vehicle collisions |journal=The Journal of Wildlife Management |date=July 2018 |volume=82 |issue=5 |pages=940–947 |doi=10.1002/jwmg.21467 |bibcode=2018JWMan..82..940B |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kušta |first1=Tomáš |last2=Keken |first2=Zdeněk |last3=Ježek |first3=Miloš |last4=Holá |first4=Michaela |last5=Šmíd |first5=Petr |title=The effect of traffic intensity and animal activity on probability of ungulate-vehicle collisions in the Czech Republic |journal=Safety Science |date=2017 |volume=91 |pages=105–113 |doi=10.1016/j.ssci.2016.08.002}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Sáenz-de-Santa-María |first1=Antonio |last2=Tellería |first2=José L. |title=Wildlife-vehicle collisions in Spain |journal=European Journal of Wildlife Research |date=8 March 2015 |volume=61 |issue=3 |pages=399–406 |doi=10.1007/s10344-015-0907-7 |s2cid=6511474 }}</ref>